8th Annual Fraser Forum: Coaching Tips for Childhood Anxiety

Family Smart presents the 8th Annual Fraser Forum, Coaching Tips for Childhood Anxiety, on Monday, March 27th has opened and spaces are filling up!

Please join Jane Beaumont, Certified Canadian Counsellor, CCPA, and a FamilySmartTM Youth and Parent panel to

Learn Tips and Strategies for supporting children and youth living with anxiety

Hear from and ask questions of a youth and parent with lived experience, who've "been there", about what works

Visit a small resource fair highlighting child and youth mental health and substance use services and programs in the area

This promises to be a great evening. This is a free event (preregistration is required) for families caring for children and youth with mental health and/or substance use challenges and those working with young people and their families. Suitable for parents and caregivers of kids aged 8-18 years. Light refreshments will be served.

Resources

LearningLinks is an online learning resource designed to enhance knowledge, skills and confidence in child and youth mental health to support the needs of health care professionals and improving access for children, youth and families to medical specialists with expertise in child and youth mental health in BC.

This is a video recording of Dr. Linda Uyeda's presentation: The Art of Raising Resilient Children. In this presentation, you’ll learn: how early life experiences shape the developing brain, how secure attachment relationships and mindfulness practices can improve learning, anxiety, relationship skills, focus and concentration in our children, how mindfulness can improve our own health and well-being as caring adults who support children and youth.

This is an agency of Provincial Health Services Authority, providing provincial tertiary mental health services to the citizens of British Columbia. Programs include: Adult Tertiary Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatric Services, Child & Adolescent Mental Health, Women’s Reproductive Mental Health, as well as the Provincial Specialized Eating Disorders Program for children and youth located at the BC Children’s Hospital.

Through a wide range of fundraising events and opportunities, The BC Children's Hospital Foundation is united with its donors by a single, simple passion - to improve the health and the lives of the young people who enter BC Children's Hospital every day.